May 31, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/
Continuing yesterday’s discussion of fake news:
Guess et al says that 46% percent of Trump voters endorsed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. Does this mean fake news is very powerful?
We can compare this to belief in various other conspiracy theories, as...
May 30, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/24/guided-by-the-beauty-of-our-weapons/
[Content note: kind of talking around Trump supporters and similar groups as if they’re not there.]
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Tim Harford writes The Problem With Facts, which uses Brexit and Trump as jumping-off points to argue that people are mostly impervious to...
May 29, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/creationism-unchallenged/
How much should responsible news organizations report on stupid things?
If they don’t report at all, the stupid things go unchallenged. But if they report too much, then they signal-boost the stupid thing and give it free publicity (eg Donald Trump)....
May 28, 2020
https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/26/my-immortal-as-alchemical-allegory/
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From Vox: Solving The Mystery Of The Internet’s Most Beloved And Notorious Fanfic. The fanfic is “My Immortal”, a Harry Potter story so famous that it has its own Wikipedia page, and articles about it in Slate, Buzzfeed, and
May 20, 2020
It is the sixty-first day of shelter-in-place. Anti-lockdown protesters have stormed your state capitol, chanting Nazi, Communist, ISIS, and pro-Jeffrey Epstein slogans to help you figure out...